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Days 14-18

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July 1st 2009
We have now clocked over 5000km! We are in Katherine for the next couple of Days but I will come back to that as I still have to fill you in on what we have been up to since Karratha. We headed to Port Headland which was a really industrial town, they mine Iron Ore there and the whole town is covered in red dust, it is really strange; all the paths are red, the roofs are red - just everything! At ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Northern Territory » Katherine

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more